The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

By Jose Fernandez Today, we are thrilled to announce the release of bpftop , a command-line tool designed to streamline the performance optimization and monitoring of eBPF applications. Striking a balance between eBPF’s benefits and system load is crucial, ensuring it enhances rather than hinders our operational efficiency.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

DevOps platform engineers are responsible for cloud platform availability and performance, as well as the efficiency of virtual bandwidth, routers, switches, virtual private networks, firewalls, and network management. They are similar to site reliability engineers (SREs) who focus on creating scalable, highly reliable software systems.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

Kubernetes is an open source container orchestration platform that enables organizations to automatically scale, manage, and deploy containerized applications in distributed environments. According to the Kubernetes in the Wild 2023 report, “Kubernetes is emerging as the operating system of the cloud.”

Open Source 203

Open Source Social Media Infrastructure Operating System 203

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Redis Revealed: An Overview Redis, a renowned open-source, in-memory remote dictionary server, stands out for its diverse data structures and advanced features. Redis Data Types and Structures The design of Redis’s data structures emphasizes versatility. Memcached’s primary strength lies in its simplicity.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Centralization of platform capabilities improves efficiency of managing complex, multi-cluster infrastructure environments According to research findings from the 2023 State of DevOps Report , “36% of organizations believe that their team would perform better if it was more centralized.” Automation, automation, automation.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

As dynamic systems architectures increase in complexity and scale, IT teams face mounting pressure to track and respond to conditions and issues across their multi-cloud environments. Organizations usually implement observability using a combination of instrumentation methods including open-source instrumentation tools, such as OpenTelemetry.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

Choosing the Right Cloud Services Choosing the right cloud services is crucial in developing an efficient multi cloud strategy. Register now for free and experience the seamless operation of your databases across multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud systems. Elevate your cloud strategy today with ScaleGrid!

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Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2024

As organizations train generative AI systems with critical data, they must be aware of the security and compliance risks. Likewise, with observability of systems that run AI models, organizations can predict and control costs, performance, and data reliability. Cloud application security is crucial to every organization.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

During earlier years of my career, I primarily worked as a backend software engineer, designing and building the backend systems that enable big data analytics. I developed many batch and real-time data pipelines using open source technologies for AOL Advertising and eBay. What is your favorite project?

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

This includes custom, built-in-house apps designed for a single, specific purpose, API-driven connections that bridge the gap between legacy systems and new services, and innovative apps that leverage open-source code to streamline processes. Development teams create and iterate on new software applications.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Application developers commonly leverage open-source software when building containerized applications. In fact, the market research firm Forrester says that the average container image is comprised of 70% open-source software.[1] 1] And unfortunately, open-source software is often fraught with security vulnerabilities.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

by Liwei Guo , Ashwin Kumar Gopi Valliammal , Raymond Tam , Chris Pham , Agata Opalach , Weibo Ni AV1 is the first high-efficiency video codec format with a royalty-free license from Alliance of Open Media (AOMedia), made possible by wide-ranging industry commitment of expertise and resources.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

As a result, organizations need software to work perfectly to create customer experiences, deliver innovation, and generate operational efficiency. It should be open by design to accelerate innovation, enable powerful integration with other tools, and purposefully unify data and analytics. That’s where context comes into play.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 17, 2021

Application security is a software engineering term that refers to several different types of security practices designed to ensure applications do not contain vulnerabilities that could allow illicit access to sensitive data, unauthorized code modification, or resource hijacking. How open-source packages have changed the game.

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Percona

MAY 1, 2023

It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. Efficient Resource Utilization: Enabling the effective utilization of system resources like CPU, memory, and disk I/O can optimize your PostgreSQL database while maintaining functionality.

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Brendan Gregg

APRIL 27, 2023

Observability tools are designed have the lowest overhead possible so that they are safe to run in production while analyzing an active performance issue. Keeping overhead low can require tradeoffs in other areas: tcpdump(8), for example, will drop packets if the system is overloaded, resulting in incomplete visibility.

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Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

We want adopters of our technology to be able to deploy their critical open source databases and applications across any public or private cloud environment. Creating repositories for memory-safe patterns in cloud systems to improve overall security.

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Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

Monolithic software systems employ one large codebase, which includes collections of tools, software development kits, and associated development dependencies. Because monolithic software systems employ one large codebase repository, the service becomes a massive piece of software that is labor-intensive to manage.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. Some disruption might occur, but it will be minimal. Fault tolerance aims for zero downtime and data loss.

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The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

Teaching rigorous distributed systems with efficient model checking Michael et al., It describes the labs environment, DSLabs , developed at the University of Washington to accompany a course in distributed systems. EuroSys’19. On the surface you might think today’s paper selection an odd pick.

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Dynatrace

JULY 5, 2022

In fact, according to a Forrester Consulting report , implementing an AIOps approach that provides proactive visibility helped companies improve operational efficiency and reduce false-positive alerts by 95%. Like the development and design phases, these applications generate massive data volumes that offer relevant and actionable insights.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Bitrate versus quality comparison HDR-VMAF is designed to be format-agnostic — it measures the perceptual quality of HDR video signal regardless of its container format, for example, Dolby Vision or HDR10. This is achieved by more efficiently spacing the ladder points, especially in the high-bitrate region. The graphic below (Fig.

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Scalegrid

JUNE 11, 2019

Ready to transition from a commercial database to open source, and want to know which databases are most popular in 2019? We broke down the data by open source databases vs. commercial databases: Open Source Databases. Popular examples of open source databases include MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

In many, high-throughput, OLTP style applications the database plays a crucial role to achieve scale, reliability, high-performance and cost efficiency. In a paper published this week at SIGMOD'17 , the Amazon Aurora team presents the design considerations for the new database engine and how they addressed them.

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. The main objective of this post is to share my experience over the past years tuning MongoDB and centralize the diverse sources that I crossed in this journey in a unique place. 25.84 - Total 21.04

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Percona

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Take a look. Percona Monitoring and Management 2.41.0 was released on December 12, 2023.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This openness is accompanied by reduced data quality which limits the value of analyses run on data lakes. A data lakehouse addresses these limitations and introduces an entirely new architectural design. This starts with a highly efficient ingestion pipeline that supports adding hundreds of petabytes daily.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

The Azure Well-Architected Framework is a set of guiding tenets organizations can use to evaluate architecture and implement designs that will scale over time. Performance efficiency. Performance Efficiency. Design efficient use of your computing resources as demand changes and technologies evolves. Reliability.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2022

In addition, as businesses of all kinds adopt cloud-native and open source technologies, their environments become more flexible. Cloud environment toolkits —microservices, Kubernetes, and serverless platforms — deliver business agility, but also create complexity for which many security solutions weren’t designed.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2022

As developers move to microservice-centric designs, components are broken into independent services to be developed, deployed, and maintained separately. IDC predicted, by 2022, 90% of all applications will feature microservices architectures that improve the ability to design, debug, update, and use third-party code. Easier to deploy.

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Percona

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Error logging is a critical aspect of database administration, providing insights into issues, warnings, and errors that may affect the system’s stability and performance. This is particularly beneficial in high-traffic environments where minimizing log noise is crucial for efficient log analysis.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems. Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. Troubleshooting a session in Edgar When we started building Edgar four years ago, there were very few open-source distributed tracing systems that satisfied our needs.

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Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

PostgreSQL is open source relational database management software. In another survey, using multiple metrics for overall popularity, PostgreSQL ranks as the fourth most popular database management system ( DB-Engines, March 2023 ). It has evolved steadily, however, during 25 years as an open source project.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

APRIL 8, 2024

Having access to a diversified talent pool and having efficient procedures for project management are just two examples of the abundance of knowledge and experience that these organizations provide to the company. Thanks to their talented WordPress design and development staff, the firm is delighted to create top-notch WordPress websites.

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Percona

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Transparent Huge Pages (THP) is a memory management feature in Linux operating systems that aims to enhance system performance. However, the inclusion of the HugePages feature allows the Linux kernel to efficiently handle substantial memory pages alongside the standard 4KB size. Try Percona Distribution for MySQL today!

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 18, 2022

But managing the breadth of the vulnerabilities that can put your systems at risk is challenging. Security vulnerabilities are weaknesses in applications, operating systems, networks, and other IT services and infrastructure that would allow an attacker to compromise a system, steal data, or otherwise disrupt IT operations.

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Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

From May 17 to May 18, 2021, the Open-Source Engineering team at Dynatrace attended the virtual observability conference, o11yfest. To improve their alerting system, the team decided to move to SLO/SLI-based alerting, which require deeper knowledge of the application but are more helpful than generalized metric alerts.

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